Ivelyse Andino

Why organisations work with Ivelyse Andino

• She runs a revenue-generating company built inside the communities most health strategies talk about but rarely reach, so her recommendations are tested against real outcomes, not theory.
• She holds a seat on the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group, which gives her a direct read on how the largest US physician body is attempting to embed equity into clinical innovation.
• She has built and commercialised an AI product, Radical Relay, that prepares patients for clinical visits, so she can speak credibly to boards about the operational gap between AI hype and AI that earns community trust.
• She has translated health equity from slogan to structure by founding the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in New York City, offering a concrete model for mission-aligned commercial design.
• Her fellowships with the Roddenberry Foundation and the Aspen Institute, alongside Crain’s Whole Health Heroes recognition, signal that her perspective is taken seriously by institutional and philanthropic funders shaping the next decade of health policy.

Biography highlights

• Founder and CEO, Radical Health, the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in New York City.
• Member, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group.
• 2022 Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow.
• Former Commissioner, New York City Commission on Gender Equity.
• Recognised in Crain’s New York and Empire BlueCross BlueShield Whole Health Heroes, and reported on Rock Health’s Top 50 in Digital Health Luminaries.
• Featured in Washington Post, Forbes, Nasdaq and Crain’s New York; speaking credits include Aspen Ideas Festival, Harvard Intercollegiate Business Convention, and TEDx Bronx.

Biography

Health equity is one of the most heavily cited commitments in corporate and clinical strategy, and one of the least operationalised. Radical Health was built to close that gap from the bottom up. The company, founded and led by Ivelyse Andino, combines kitchen-table community organising with AI-enabled tools that help patients walk into clinical visits prepared, informed and able to advocate for themselves.

Andino came to this work through the health technology industry, not around it. She spent her early career launching digital health products, including a mobile prescribing platform, and working with clients such as NHS London and Kaiser Permanente. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer, the limits of that system became personal, and the distance between clinical knowledge and community access became the problem she decided to solve.

Radical Health is a Benefit Corporation, legally structured to hold commercial performance and community outcomes together. Its flagship product, Radical Relay, has been described as a “know your rights” app for healthcare, using peer-informed prompts and natural language tools to reduce the information asymmetry patients face in clinical settings. That product design sits alongside workshops and training that surface the social determinants of health inside workforces and provider networks.

Her institutional standing reinforces the field work. She serves on the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group, helping shape how the largest US physician body directs investment toward equitable innovation. She is a 2022 Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow, a 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow, a former Commissioner on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity, and a recipient of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper grant for work on social determinants of health in NYC Community Schools.

Key speaking topics

• Health equity as an operating discipline
• Community-led design in healthcare and employer wellbeing
• AI and digital health products that earn community trust
• Benefit Corporation models for mission-aligned growth
• Social determinants of health inside workforces and benefits design
• Women, Latina and founder-of-colour perspectives on health innovation
• Patient self-advocacy and health literacy at scale

Ideal for

• CHROs and heads of benefits rebuilding employee health, wellbeing and maternal health programmes around underserved populations.
• Healthcare, payer and life sciences executives who need a credible outside voice on equitable AI deployment and community trust.
• DEI, ESG and impact leads accountable for measurable outcomes in health-related commitments.
• Foundation, public health and policy audiences working on health system reform and social determinants of health.

Audience outcomes

• A clear view of where current health equity and wellbeing strategies are failing the people they claim to serve, and why.
• A working model for how a commercial organisation can hold mission and margin together through benefit-corp structure and community governance.
• A grounded assessment of how AI is being used in health settings today, which uses build trust and which erode it.
• Language and frameworks that CHROs, benefits leaders and clinical teams can use to reset conversations with marginalised employee and patient populations.
• Named examples from Radical Health, the AMA advisory work, and NYC community programmes that leaders can adapt for their own context.